Energy Act 2004

70 Nuclear transfer scheme for UKAEA Constabulary

(1) The Secretary of State must make a nuclear transfer scheme providing for the transfer to the Police Authority of—

(a) the employees of the UKAEA who are members of the UKAEA Constabulary;

(b) such other persons employed by the UKAEA for purposes connected with that Constabulary as he considers appropriate;

(c) such property held by the UKAEA for purposes connected with the activities of members of the UKAEA Constabulary as he considers appropriate; and

(d) such rights and liabilities of the UKAEA relating to any of those activities, or to any such property, as he considers appropriate.

(2) The nuclear transfer scheme that provides for the transfer of members of the UKAEA Constabulary to the Police Authority must provide for the transfer to the Police Authority, at the same time, of everyone who immediately before that time is employed by the UKAEA exclusively for purposes connected with that Constabulary.

(3) Chapter 2 of this Part shall have effect as if the nuclear transfer scheme required by this section were a scheme authorised by section 39 but did not require the consent of the Police Authority to any of its provisions.

(4) From the date on which the nuclear transfer scheme required by this section comes into force, the members of the UKAEA Constabulary who are transferred by the scheme shall hold office as members of the Constabulary as if they had—

(a) been appointed by the Police Authority in accordance with section 55; and

(b) on appointment made the declaration required by that section.

(5) In this section “members of the UKAEA Constabulary”, in relation to a nuclear transfer scheme, means persons who, on the date on which the scheme comes into force, are special constables appointed on the nomination of the UKAEA under section 3 of the Special Constables Act 1923 (c. 11).